spec_type_to_var_spec: Spec to var_spec

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Spec to var_spec

Description

Creates the var_spec from a list of datasets (optionally filtered by the sheet input). The named vector cols is used to determine which is the correct sheet and renames the columns. (Note: the keep column will be converted logical)

Usage

spec_type_to_var_spec(
  doc,
  cols = c(variable = "[N|n]ame|[V|v]ariables?", length = "[L|l]ength", label =
    "[L|l]abel", type = "[T|t]ype", dataset = "[D|d]ataset|[D|d]omain", format =
    "[F|f]ormat"),
  sheet = "[V|v]ar"
)

Arguments

doc	Named list of datasets @seealso read_all_sheets() for exact format
cols	Named vector of column names. The column names can be regular expressions for more flexibility. But, the names must follow the given pattern
sheet	Regular expression for the sheet name

Value

a dataset formatted for the metacore object

See Also

Other spec builder: spec_type_to_codelist(), spec_type_to_derivations(), spec_type_to_ds_spec(), spec_type_to_ds_vars(), spec_type_to_value_spec()

metacore documentation built on March 7, 2023, 7:45 p.m.